Demon Quotes - Page 36

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  Oren Peli

  Watches, Ghost, Exorcist

  "'Paranormal activity' director Oren Peli on what scares him during Halloween" by Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, Trying, Body

  "'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Answers Questions From His Fans". Interview with Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2009.

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• She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

  Gillian Shields

  Soul, Enemy, Mentor

  Gillian Shields (2009). “Immortal”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• How much suffering and fear, and
  How many harmful things are in existence?
  If all arises from clinging to the "I",
  What should I do with this great demon?

  Shantideva

  Ego, Suffering, Arise

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• If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Ignorance

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• We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.

  Peyton Manning

  Trying, Hard

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• I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Pain, Thinking

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• Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.

  John Climacus

  Life, Running, Peace

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Angel, Pride

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• ... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Attitude, Believe

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• Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Night, Men

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• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Humble, Heart

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• The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “The Maine Woods”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Drinking, Compassion, Vices

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• Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

  Zoroaster

  Desire, World, Treasure

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• Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

  Wes Nisker

  Passion, Artist, Muse

  Wes Nisker (2012). “The Essential Crazy Wisdom”, p.111, Ten Speed Press

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• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Good Life, Memories

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• Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.

  Teresa Giudice

  Attachment, Self, Hands

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• They only the victory win,
  Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
  Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
  Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.

  William Wetmore Story

  Fighting, Winning, Suffering

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.178

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• In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

  Victor Hugo

  Made, Priests, Notre Dame

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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